Standard for desk-calendars.



F. A. HALE.

STANDARD FOR DESK CALENDARS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3, 1910.

Patented Dec. 3, 1912.

UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE.

FRANK A. HALE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STANDARD FOR DESK-CALENDARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 8, 1910.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK A. HALE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Standards for Desk- Calendars, of which the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

The invention relates to paper filing devices, such, for example, as holders for calendar pads of that type having a base adapted to rest upon a desk or table, and providing two seats for the leaves of the pad connected by filing arches adapted to retain the levers of the pad in consecutive arrangement and guide them as they are moved from one to the other of the seats of the base.

More particularly the invention relates to the formation of filing posts or arches and to the manner of removably securing them to a base.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a holder for desk calendars of simple and improved construction; and the invention is exemplified in the structure to be hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating a desk calendar having a base or holder embodying the features of improvement provided by the invention; Fig. 2 is similar to Fig. 1, but shows the standard or holder without the leaves of the calendar pad; Fig. 3 is a plan sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 44 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing a detail of one of the filing arches of the holder.

The structure illustrated in the drawings comprises a base 10, having two seats 11, 12, for calendar leaves located side by side, as viewed from the'front, these seats being provided upon the inclined upper surface 13 of the base. The filing arc-hes 14, 15, are preferably of different span, and are located in the same plane at the rear of the base 10.

As shown the arches 14, 15, are formed from a single piece of resilient wire or rod 16, the end portions 17, 18, of the rod 16 forming one leg of each of the arches 14, 15, whereby the other legs of the arches are con- Patented Dec. 3, 1912.

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nected by an intermediate portion 19 of the rod. The base 10 is most desirably formed by stamping from a sheetof metal or papiermach, and is provided with sockets 20, 21, for receiving the ends 17, 18, of the rod 16, and an opening 22 having an inwardly-facing edge 23 adjacent the lower ends of the other legs of the arches 14, 15. r

The sockets 20, 21, take the form of slots formed in the upper surface of the base 10. As shown, these slots are enlarged or widened, as indicated at 24, preferably at the ends of the slots which are nearest the opening 22. The sockets or slots 20, 21, except at their widened or enlarged ends 24, are of less width than the diameter of the rod 16, as most clearly shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, and the rod 16 is notched adjacent each of its ends, as at 25 (Fig. 6), preferably by gripping it from opposite sides with a blunt tool. A sort of T-head is thus formed upon the ends of the rod 16, which may be secured in the sockets 20, 21, by inserting the end of the wire into the widened portion 24 until the notches 25 come into line with the narrower or body portion of the slots, and by then moving the rod laterally to cause the walls of the slots to engage the notches 25.

The part 19 of the rod 16 which connects the arches 14, 15, may be conveniently secured to the base 10 by forming it into a spring clip 26, adapted to be applied to and to grip the inwardly-facing edge or margin 23 of the aperture or opening 22. The spring clip 26, as shown, is formed by doubling the part 19 of the rod upon itself in the manner in which wire clips, commonly in use for gripping the margins of sheets of paper for holding them together, are formed.

In use, the leaves of a calendar pad 27 will be applied to the filing arches 14, 15, by threading them upon the ends 17, 18, of the rod 16, and the spring clip 26 will then be applied to the base 10 by slipping it onto the edge 23 of the aperture 22. The arches 14, 15, are preferably so formed as to be normally somewhat flaring at the base, whereby it is necessary to slightly compress the arches to cause the-ends 17, 18, of the rod 16 to enter the sockets 20, 21, after the spring clip 26 has been applied, as just described. The resilience of the material from which the rod 16 is formed will then cause the arches to spread and urge the ends 17 18, of the rod-into the narrower portions of the slots or sockets 21, 22, whereby the notches 25 become engaged with the walls of the sockets. The spacing of the arches 14:, 15, is determined by the spacing of the apertures 28, 29, provided in the leaves of the pad 27, and when the leaves of the pad are applied to the ends 17, 18, of the arches these ends cannot be moved independently of each other. This prevents their separate disengagement from the sockets 20, 21, and effectually pirevents the accidental disengage-- ment of the arches 14c, 15, from the base 10.

I claim as my invention:

In a holder for pad calendars in combination, a base formed of sheet material having an opening and a pair of slots with widened ends directed toward the opening, a air of filing arches normally of greater width than the distance between the opening and the slots of the base, the said arches being formed from an integral resilient red, the ends of the rod forming one leg of each arch and being notched to enter the narrower portion of one of the slots, and the arch-connecting portion of the rod being bent into the form of a spring clip for gripping an edge of the base opening.

FRANK A. HALE. WVitnesses:

CHARLES B. GILLsON, E. M. KLAToI-IER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0. 

